top of page


Disney's Dark Films: How The Watcher in the Woods (1980) Defined My Personality
I know I’m not the only one who was traumatized from The Watcher in the Woods (1980), a Disney movie based on the novel by Florence Engel Randall. Watching it back as an adult (which is really hard to do, it’s impossible to find) I realize this movie may have given me my entire personality. The Watcher in the Woods tells the story of an American family that moves to an old estate in the English countryside. The teenage daughter becomes fascinated with a decades-old disappear
Abby Brenker
Feb 283 min read
bottom of page